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UAW Solidarity
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1963-10-01
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Vol. 6 No. 10
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Vol. 6
No. 10
Oct.
1963
| oneEoamg Sor
paid
Second
Class
Postage
in Indianapolis,
Indiana,
AUTOMOBILE,
AEROSPACE & AGRICULTURAL
IMPLEMENT WORKERS
OF AMERICA
Joint Conference
Urges Government
To Form Commission
To Recommend New
Aerospace Pay System
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for Women
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At Automation?
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Crises in 1965 Can
Be Avoided
UAW -IAM
Urges
Conference
Government
To Create Commission
To Recommend New
Aerospace Pay System
ce
hope
unions
sume.
the
sponsible.”
are
their
industry
again
ready
to
responsibilities.
will be
equally
as-
We
re-
With these words, UAW Vice President Leonard P. Woodcock called upon the aerospace industry to join with
the UAW and International Association of ‘Machinists
(IAM)
to
take
steps now to avert
mission
to
pressures
ments in
this
year
before
for negotiating new
1965 begin to mount
new crisis is upon us,” the
said.
the
agreeand a
resolution
Workers in the aerospace industry
“are saddled with a 20-year-old system of determining wage rates” established in
1943
by a group of large
air-frame manuern California, the
resolution charged.
The
1943
wage
System, adopted by
the
War
Labor
Board
in
an
at-
tempt to stabilize
wages
during
World War II, “has
been
a constant
source of disturbance, friction and
conflict in the in-
dustry,” the
lution said.
reso-
“ .... It has been
misused
by
indi-
vidual
companies
to gain competitive
wage advantage in
the industry at the
expense of their
LEONARD
tri-partite
recommend
anew
comwage
system for the industry.
The commission, to be composed of
representatives of labor, management
and the federal government, should
a
its work
facturers in South-
future labor crises
in an industry vital to the nation’s
defense.
Woodcock’s chal]lenge to the aeroSpace
industry to
cooperate in moves
to assure stability
in
collective’ bargaining came in a
Closing speech he
made to some 300
representatives
of
the IAM and UAW
meeting in Los Angeles in the Third
Joint
IAM-UAW
Conference.
The
delegates represented
500,000
workers in the industry.
The two day conference was highlighted by the unanimous
adoption
by the delegates of
a resolution urging
President John F.
Kennedy to establish immediately a
“pegin
WOODCOCK
;
workers.”
Fe
resolution
urged that the
commission
“examine
past, present and projected
manpower needs in
this industry so all
parties may gain a better understand-
ing of the magnitude of both personal
and community problems created by
irregular
and
fluctuating
employment. <7
Recommendations for an “employment security program for laid off
‘Workers are saddled with an outmoded
system misused by individual companies’
workers comparable to those existing
in other industries,” should be made
by the tri-partite commission, the resolution said.
In 1962 a Presidential panel headed
by Dr. George W. Taylor recommended that the aerospace wage system be
overhauled thoroughly.
The
should
thority:
1. To
resolution
be
said
granted
study
and
the
to
the
commission
following
make
au-
recom-
mendations
for a more equitable
and up-to-date system of determining wage rates.
2. To examine
past, present
projected manpower needs in
industry so all parties may
a better understanding of
magnitude of both personal
community
problems
created
and
this
gain
the
and
by
irregular and fluctuating employment and to make recommenda-
tions for an employment security program for laid off workers
comparable to those
other industries.
oo
to the
a
existing
conference
in
devoted
major portion of the time to
work in five major committees. The
committees presented reports on employment security and union security,
apprenticeship
and
training,
new
plant and in-plant organizing, erosion
and dilution of the bargaining units
and wage structure and job classifications.
The conference was opened by IAM
Vice President P. L. (Roy) Siemiller,
who
served
as
co-chairman
conference with Woodcock.
of
the
Stephen N. Shulman, deputy assistant secretary of defense for civilian
personnel and industrial relations, addressed the delegates on the need for
better
communication
among
the
aerospace industry
unions and the
Federal
government.
‘The unions are ready to assume responsibility. Is the industry?’
t
A
d
e
k
o
o
L
y
l
Have We Real
1 Problem—
Our No.
s
ct
fa
ng
ci
fa
of
d
ea
st
in
Are we swallowing ‘myths’
y?
et
ci
so
r
ou
d
an
us
on
ve
ha
about the effect it will
Americans yet
and for generations of
“If we fail, we are handing our
come.”
Was he discussing the space race?
children an invitation to disaster.”’
A man made this bleak warning recently
while testifying before a Congressional Committee. He also said:
“Failure to perceive the dimensions and the
gravity of the human problems we are facing
represents a moral breakdown of the gravest
Or
Or
the cold war?
communism in Latin
Or
a cure for cancer?
Or school dropouts?
to
automation equipment who knows coldly and
exactly what the consequences will be from
the
“On the other hand, by meeting and over-
coming the challenges that confront us, acting in the common good, and by conquering
America?
pathetically
wondering
what
had
become
his
is building.
firm
had come before the Senate Labor and
Welfare Committee to plead that it recand assume the role that government
undertake in finding a solution to this
problem.
He is John I. Snyder Jr., chairman and
president of U.S. Industries Inc. He is also
co-founder and co-chairman with Al J. Hayes,
president of the International Association of
Machinists, of the American Foundation on
Automation and Employment.
He was speaking, he said, because ‘neither
our company nor the other automation machinery manufacturers possesses the kind of
resources that enables us to bear the full burden, to assume the full responsibility for all
those people affected in one way or another
by our machines.
Was he a permanently unemployed worker,
ourselves as we have conquered the natural
forces around us, we can gain the rich rewards of our scientific ingenuity for ourselves
devices
He
Public
ognize
must
No, he was talking about what has suddenly become the No. 1 problem of our
nation—the problem of industrial automation, the swift and continual replacement of
men by machines in our factories.
dimensions.
of
manufacturer
a successful
was’
he
No,
of
his job and how many more like him would
soon be in the same sinking economic boat?
“This simply is not the kind of responsi-
bility that can be delegated to any one company or even group of companies.
“It is too large, too all-encompassing, too
serious a responsibility not to be everyone’s.”
‘The success of society will depend
upon
its ability to enjoy leisure’
rich countries will be to examine and
challenge the ideology that makes work more
con
t
tha
ts
ges
sug
and
e
sur
lei
n
tha
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import
sumption is valuable of itself without reference to the service that can be rendered by the
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of how many jobs were being lost each year
through automation.
He said it was 40,000 a week — or over 2
million a year — an estimate which was 10
times larger than that made a few days
before by a productivity expert of the Labor
moment to raise such questions, that it is too
soon to tell whether new consumption needs
‘“™N THE LONG RUN, the problem of the
goods
testimony received widespread
Snyder’s
coverage in the press because of his estimate
will be developed to take up all the available
production,
early
too
and
work,
ethic that has made
sumption into a way of life.
purchased.
events
forcing this reconsideration — the
generation is no longer satisfied with
aims, believing they are inadequate.
this were untrue, we could not afford
our re-examination, for ideas do not
“Tt will be necessary to see what aims the
individual should adopt to make sense of bis
life, whether there are ways in which he can
spend his days happily without working or
whether a certain amount of labor would add
to his satisfaction.
“This does not mean that an attempt
should be made to destroy the idea of the
dignity of work, the sense of achievement that
the
saving and con-
unrealistic;
is
view
“This
to challenge
Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Furthermore, Snyder added, “We must keep
in mind that automation is not only displacing
people directly, but also indirectly through
what are called ‘silent firings’ in reference to
are
younger
the old
Even tf
to delay
change
_workers who would have been hired for jobs
eliminated by automation.”
Snyder said the low estimate—“gross underestimate,” in his words—of automation’s
rapid inroads on employment is traceable to
the public’s persistent belief in what he called
several “myths” about automation.
“Because they are so widely accepted,”
he said of these myths, they “have a deep
tranquilizing effect on many of those who
otherwise might make effective contributions toward solutions to the human problems created by automation.”
Snyder mentioned three other beliefs about
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“The generation that is being educated
now will live into an age when money will
cease to be an adequate measure of of the
value
comes from a job well done; indeed, there 1s
indeed it ever was; when
of goods—if
greater production and productivity will
cease to be a major goal; when hours of
work will be less than half those of the pres-
perhaps a need to rebuild this ideal, which
has been tarnished by the prevalence of mass
production techniques, where the individual
attends a factory only in order to obtain the
consumer goods he wants rather than to gain
any satisfaction from work.
“Some would argue that this is not the
ent time and the
upon its ability
travel will be a
must fit them to
this future
success of society will depend
to enjoy leisure; when space
possibility. Their education
deal with the complexities of
world.”
automation
Education
Dept.
at
20%
current
One, he said, is the “myth that automation
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will create
“The
not only in run-
jobs for workers
ning the machines,
building them.
truth
hard
but
in maintaining
here,”
he said,
and
“is that
modern automated equipment requires very
little maintenance.
“If it did not, it would not pay to oper-
book, “’The Rich and the Poor,” an analysis of some of the economic and sociohave to conlogical problems we may
sider in the coming world of automation
if we are to create a decent world for all
mankind. The book is priced at 50 cents
but is available to UAW members through
UAW
of
basis
the
are
evaluations of the problem and which he says
are mistaken.
The ideas above are those of economist
Robert Theobald as expressed in his 1961
the
which
ate it; and
if
the
equivalent
number
of
workers replaced by automation were required to build the machines and systems,
there would be no point in automating.”
Another myth, he said, “is the belief that
those who lose their jobs to automation can
be retrained and put into other jobs requiring
higher skills and paying more money.”
off.
“As
studies
have
shown,
automation
is
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the demands for skills and aptitudes and,
besides, many workers are just not retrainable, due to their levels of intelligence, education and age.
“Still another myth,” Snyder went on, “‘is
that workers replaced by automation in one
part of the country can find jobs in other
areas.
:
“The truth is that the workers thrown
out of jobs are usually those who are least
able to move.
older,
the
They are the lower paid, the
unskilled.
“Either they cannot afford to move from
an economic standpoint or they are psychologically incapable of beginning a new life
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in a strange area.”
Why does Snyder—whose profits are probably going to increase as more manufacturers
turn to automation—warn the government?
“IT have mentioned these myths or misconceptions because I feel strongly that they are
unfortunately serving as easy palliatives for
those who either cannot or will not come for-
ward and grapple with the human problems
caused by automation.
“It is much easier _to look for proof that
these
problems
their existence
solution.”’
do
and
not
exist
move
than
to admit
ahead
towards
a
Snyder said that this “general failure to
face these problems, the attempt in many
places to avoid them, to my way of thinking, represents a national moral weakness.”
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_ He also labeled it “an indication of a common failure to judge and understand the severe nature and extent of the thrust of this
technological revolution.”
What then is his answer?
“In the coming months and years, if we
are to survive as
“we
will
need
a
new
nation,”
Snyder
sociological
said,
and
eco-
nomic ideas to solve the problems we face
in this area.
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All
of us, whether
our
desks
are
in
the
Congress, or in business offices, or at union
headquarters, must work together as never
before—to
:
come
up with
such new
:
;
TRANSFEROBOT
200,
assembly
It
one
of the
automation
de-
vices made by the firm headed by John I. Snyder,
Jr. (above), is designed for use on production and
ideas.
pieces,
We have a moral obligation to make a
substantial contribution towards solving the
lines.
transfer
or
can
rotate
pick
them,
up
and
weld,
oil or glue them. One man operates it.
turn
stake
over
rivet,
problems that accompany rapid technological change.”
‘se
an economic
WE
ARE ON THE threshold of an economic revolu-
revolution’
tion whose achievements, consequences and social
upheaval may be as great as achievements and upheaval
which flowed from the industrial revolution.”
That
“revolution,” said Rep.
William
F. Ryan
N.Y.), is automation—and it is “with us now.”
(D.,
Ryan said this in introducing a bill in the House which
would set up a Federal commission on automation.
Ryan’s bill outlines a five-member board appointed by
the President, with one member from labor, one from
management and three from the public, all to work full
time,
:
!
They would have three tasks:
1. To study and bring together all other studies of
automation, whether by government, labor, management
or education,
2. To hold meetings and discussions of automation by
authorities from all these. fields, and
3. To make this information available to the public
and to make reports and recommendations to thé Congress and the President.
October, 1963 — Page 3
A NEW
covering
bers
CONTRACT
UAW
mem-
at
a
michigan
company
which
“ran away'’—
back to Michigan
—
was signed by Region
Titiitiii
rare ee Se
1A
co-director
Bard
Young (seated, left) as
Newton Skillman Jr.,
(seated,
right) president of the Crescent
Brass Co., gets ready
to sign, too. Looking
are
on
(standing,
Tena
October,
G
mit)
CY
1963
left
to right) UAW International
Representative Phil Maggio of
his
staff;
Young's
wife, Carolyn Maggio,
S
financial secretary of
Local 408 which represents workers at the
plant,
and
Clarence
Contratto, president of
the local. Young described the agreement
as a “good first contract.”
‘Good First Contract’ Marks
Runaway’s Return to State
And
Five years 3¢0, the Crescent Brass and Pin
Co., which had operated in Michigan for 54
years, left Detroit for the so-called “climate”
of lower-wage Georgia.
Today, the company has moved back to
Michigan where UAW Local 408 and Region
1-A co-director Bard Young have just signed
a first contract with the firm’s new president,
Newton Skillman Jr.
“We lost 60% of our automotive business
while operating in the south,” Skillman said.
The company
manufactures metal parts
Said
Feature
“Moreover,
in Georgia,”
work,”
to
he
train
said.
skilled
869 Member
Happy When
Vicki Vocals
workmen
automobile
industry
sup-
said
provide a better
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and
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Skillman.
‘Mr.
Constitution’
Retires
Young emphasized, “We're glad the plant
and its jobs have returned to Michigan. We’re
also glad for what that return signifies—that
this state, which is a fairer wage area, does
skills
climate,
for
better
workers
and
loca-
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Full Insurance Coverage
Won For Local 414 Retirees
HASTINGS — UAW Local 414
has won company-paid full Blue
Cross-Blue Shield coverage for retirees at the E. E. Bliss Co. here.
Region
1-D Director Kenneth
W. Robinson hailed the agreement
as “a milestone in union-won benefits for pensioners.”
“Big Three” auto manufacturing
contracts,
for example,
provide
that only 50%
of the premium
costs of Blue Cross-Blue Shield
coverage is paid by the companies
for retirees.
didn’t
“just
we're
The firm will continue to produce nails at its
Americus plant.
“However, we've got to get
back the business we lost when we left Detroit,
but it will be a struggle,” he commented.
good
first
contract
that UAW
now has
signed with Crescent
proves that bargaining table problems can be
solved when both parties work out the answers
in good faith.”
Skillman, who became president of the firm
earlier this year after the former top executive
died, said the company had moved to the plant
at Americus, Ga., although most of its business
was done here in Michigan.
However, industrial difficulties plagued the
firm as it sought to operate in the southern
state. Skilled craftsmen needed to run the speThe
not available.
were
cialized machines
three-weeks course through which the firm
sought
machine
pliers, and when they want things, they want
them right away. We can come through fast
in Detroit but not when the plant is far away
“The
Young,
a lack of tool and
shops that could help work out problems when
the plant was in trouble in Americus, he added.
for
foundries.
The
parts are used in pouring automobile engine
blocks.
Michigan
Regional
there was
At a testimonial dinner honoring
him for his long years of service
to both his union and the labor
movement, Harry Southwell (left),
who had served as Local 174 president from 1947 until he retired
a few months ago, receives a UAW
plaque from Roland Garland, the
local’s new president.
The new two-year Local
contract also calls for wage
creases of 4c an hour this year
next. plus improvements in
sions, holiday, vacation and
duty
pay, shift premiums,
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conta
Sup
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174
&
Sta:
414
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and
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truil
sickness and accident and life insurance,
Active payroll employees at the
company
already had fully-paid
Raymond
coverage,
“Blues”
representainternational
Powell,
tive, who represented Region 1-D
in negotiations, said,
he
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Whenever Raymond J. Gagne, a
Keller operator at Chrysler's Nine
Mile Press plant, hears Vicki Carroll’s lovely yoice singing via radio,
his heart jumps. She’s his daughter.
And the UAW Local 869 memreproud
doubly
ber has been
cently, for the dark-haired singer
has been signed to a recording contract by Decca, one of the nation’s
top disc
Her
Left
too.
firms.
new
Behind”
Vicki,
record,
who
“The
Girl
her
first
is going
uses
great
You
guns,
two
given names as her stage name,
“professionally”
singing
began
when she was about 13. She organized bands, and sang with them
at amateur shows and for teen-age
hops in the Ferndale area where
the family resides.
Among stars with whom she’s
appeared are ’’Peg Leg’ Bates, Tex
Roberta
Bromfield,
John
Ritter,
and
Cabot
Sebastian
Sherwood,
Johnny Ginger.
DELEGATES
from recently-organized technical, office and professional units in the Budd Co. participated in the semi-annual
meeting in Detroit of the UAW
council to discuss mutual
Budd
problems with the delegates from
the production
and maintenance
units, From left front, around the
table counter-clockwise, they are
Jack Edwards, International Execu-
tive Board member and Budd Coun-
cil director; Don Beamon, ,'
1122, Council president; Joo!
rara, 813, Council recording »
tary;
Bill
Callison,
representative;
interno "
Md,
George
Region 1 co-director; Andy Fl \
bo, 813; behind him, Georga:)
son, Council financial sect
and
Ronnie
Chance,
next to Palumbo,
both
Frank Lamp»
Harry Scullion, John
and Ed Hesson, all
L. Le
813;
Relations
General
more
Motors,
money
corporation
have
cut
last
in world
prices,
which
year
than
"Mr. Constitution” has
' and more than 500
, “or officials and rankbeqped their hats to him
wifitution,” of course,
_ovawell,
president
is
of De-
Vi West Side Local 174
/ and chairman of the
| Committee at every
mtion since 1949.
the huge gathering of
td Michigan labor offifestimonial for South4AW President Walter
jLoéal 174’s first presiFary-Treasurer Emil
+
Michigan
usugust
AFL-CIO
Scholle.
lfor civic and governfers in praising Southsyears of service to la-
community were for¢éohn B. Swainson and
ivards,
Detroit
police
er and former Michigan
ourt justice who was
garly members of Local
came to the
[ily after World
ome
years
of
United
War I,
local
made
history, could
raised
wages
and
P.O. Bo
delegates.
Burroughs
Corporation @
Woodcock, who also is director
of the union’s National GM Department, said the corporation’s
pricing policy is geared to pull in
20% profit after taxes on an output of only 180 working days a
year.
GM’s 1962 before-taxes profit
totaled $2,934 million, a 66% increase
over
the
previous
year,
Woodcock pointed out.
With 102 delegates attending,
the conference was aimed at obtaining
suggestions
from
local
union officers and committeemen
on bargaining objectives for 1964
contract negotiations. Similar
meetings are to be held in other
areas.
Region
1-A
Co-Director
Bard
Young told delegates that unemployment is as much a management problem as the union’s, and
said
overtime
work
should
be
made ‘‘so expensive” for the corporation that it would have to hire
new employees.
Joseph McCusker, co-director of
the region, emphasized the value
to the union of obtaining ideas on
possible bargaining goals from local committeemen and officers.
Burrouths
TWO DAYS after the Burroughs
Corp. filed objections to the election in which its workers decisively
chose UAW
as their bargaining
representative, the company adyertised
in
for a “Labor
the
New
York
Relations”
m
to
unionists
Because
because of
of UAW’s
the number
quested
of the new
by Burroughs
local, as re-
workers.
WAGE COSTS should not be a factor in goyernment contract awards, Erwin Baur, right, president of Local 306, declared during a breakfast
meeting of Detroit East Side labor officials and
Congressman Harold M. Ryan (D., 14th District), left. Baur said contract bidders can undercut established wage rates by using out-of-state
low wage scales to obtain a government contract in a more~-highly industrialized area.
Among
the large group of unionists at the
breakfast meeting, one of a series Ryan is congroups, was UAW
community
ducting with
International Representative Earl Reynolds.
Michigan
Legislature
refuses
to liberalize
the restrictive aid to dependent children of unemployed workers law it
passed earlier this year, the state is losing out on about $12 milloin annually in federal funds to aid the youngsters.
U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Anthony J.
Celebrezze emphasized this when
he visited Detroit this month to
take part in the city’s annual Columbus Day celebration.
Despite the heavy loss of ADC-U
funds to the state, Gov. George
Romney was quoted as saying he
does not intend to ask the legislature to pass a liberalized law to
permit
Michigan
to obtain
the
money that would help the youngsters.
As passed by the legislature, the
Michigan law would permit ADC-U
payments
for
those parents
fy
for
state
youngsters
who
of
only
normally quali-
unemployment
bene-
fits.
But the federal government insists that the benefits should not
be restricted in that way.
“You
cannot
worked
has
only
two
at
or
a
tell
a father
garage
three
men
who
employing
that
he
can't get ADC-U while the man
who worked across the street at
a place employing 500 is eligible,”
said Celebreeze.
“And you can’t require that the
father must work 10 weeks or 20
over
his expert
governing
Fish Catches
UCS Labor Post
GRAND RAPIDS—Enoch
Fish
of UAW Local 730 here has been
named staff representative of the
Grand Rapids and Kent County
United Community Services Labor
Participation Department.
He
Bartee, Region 3 staff; Bill Kehoe,
and Ken Waters, 1122; Pete Horwatt, 306 P&M unit; Alex Kress
and John Peters, 306 TOP unit;
Erwin Baur, 306, Council vice president; George Rutledge, 1287, and
Pete McBlain, 757, and Ted McManus, assistant director of the
Council. TOP units in Budd include
Locals 757 and
1287, Philadelphia; Local 861 in Gary, Ind., and
a unit of Local 306, Detroit.
specialist
the Republican-ruled
Union,
all
Times
with a minimum of five years experience negotiating with the UAW.
Meanwhile,
UAW’s
International
Executive Board approved 1313 as
Romney ‘No’ Costs Michigan
$12 Million in Federal Funds
activity
he
B
An equal opportunity employer
yved Local 174 as vice
secording secretary and
Constitution,”
AAO
any
2s labor movement. In
organized Local
174’s
‘Products
Division.
A
the International
:
Challenging opportunity f
iali
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS STARE
Tt
ee eT
Position requires a minimum of
§ years’ experience negotiating
UAW contracts and grievance
@ rbitration, Degree er equivalent—appropriate salary.
still made substantial profits, UAW
Vice President Leonard Woodcock
told a special conference of Region
1-A
\
\
N
\
How Much
GM Could Do
For Workers
With Its
Super-Profits!
replaces
Mrs.
Martha
Rey-
nolds who had been promoted to
the labor staff of Michigan's United Fund,
An active member of the UAW
Local since 1953 when he went to
work at General Motors’ Fisher
No. 1 plant here, Fish has served
as a member of Local 730's executive board, bargaining committee,
COPE committee, and pension and
community
services
committees,
and also has been active
union’s retirees program,
in
the
THAT
BACK
PAY CHECK being shown by Mrs.
Virginia Franks
to Region 1 codirector
Ken
Morris is for a
National Labor
Relations
Board
award totalling
$2,003.
The
award
was
won
for Mrs. Franks
by the UAW after she had been
fired by the Nylok-Detroit Corp.
at
Troy.
The
NLRB
decided
she
had
been
fired
for
organize
a
helping
union
at the fastenermanufac
turing plant, and
ordered back pay
and _
ment
reinstateMrs.
for
other
employee,
Franks
Sylvester
Jr,
and
an-
Kret,
weeks
before
federal
money,”
for
these
he
benefits
becomes
which
he added.
eligible
involve
abor
at
Day
the
James
were
float
Butler; Tim Barker; Sandra Barkinternational
Brown;
Rosalyn
er;
and
Butler,
Herb
representative
Hillian Barker, president of Local
10.
to
Left
parade.
son, Local 882; John Rob-_
Local 882; Horace Hart,
Meredith
president;
882
A 77-YEAR-OLD
an ambition by
Hartke (D.-Ind.)
New
Ind.,
Castle,
LIFELONG Democrat fulfilled
getting to meet Sen. Vance
when the lawmaker came to
to open
his
re-election
cam-
paign. Hartke, told of the ambition of the elderly, bedridden man who is a double amputee,
took time out to visit Jake Wilson at a New
Castle nursing home.
Tax Cut in °63
Seen by Hartke
Ind.—Indiana Sen. Vance
CASTLE,
NEW
Hartke (D.) fired the opening gun in his camby predicting a federal
paign for re-election:
income tax cut by the end of the year that
“will astound all the skeptics.”
Hartke,
a
member
Finance Committee,
Poll Tax
holish Texas
Indiana
tting campaign to abolish the poll
'exas is under way here with UAW
nts, Region 5 Director Ted Hawks
the campaign is F. F. Medrano
erly served as sergeant-at-arms
Quick
Locals
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — It
took only a few days after the
start of this year’s COPE
dollar contribution drive for
two UAW Region 3 local unions to get voluntary contributions from all their members,
Regional Director Raymond
H. Berndt reported.
tallies, Berndt
The 100%
of
of
ore than a fee charged to a citizen
“Too often, lower-income
Hawks.
spare the amount of fee, and as a
0 vote. Because this is a completehould be done away with.”
on COPE
said, were reported by Local
586, LaPorte, and Local 531,
Lafayette.
_
The Local 586 report to
Berndt’s
office came
from
Walker S. Bray, president,
and
Robert
Wasowski,
finan-
cial secretary. Local 531’s report was signed by Howard
A. Turner, president.
Training in 4 States under Federal Act;
23 Indiana Projects at $1,548,694. Cost
Manpower Development and Train-
ing. Act “has proved its worth in
-“eombating one of the basic causes
‘of long-term unemployment, and
‘jin encouraging sound manpower
planning based on research.
Nationally,
over
75
per
cent
of
the men and 40 per cent of the
women enrolled in courses under
the Act, are heads of families or
households.
- Over the country, much of the
training is being provided to indieducational
viduals with limited
attainment. Approximately 40 per
cent of the country’s trainees have
not completed high school. One out
of every ten trainees had a grade
“school education or less.
Depending on the skills being
of the training
taught, length
courses
courses
vary.
is
Average
weeks;
22
length
of
however,
many such as practical nurse, auto
Wirtz
emphasized,
“We_ have
found that reaching the hard-core,
long-term unemployed is the most
challenging aspect of the training
So many of the people
program.
we are aiming at just do not poswhich
education
sess the basic
would permit them to absorb con-
ventional training.
before
it now
Congress
amendments
has.
which
would provide greater assistance
to those unemployed who have low
I hope
educational backgrounds.
these amendments are speedily approved.”
A HIGHLIGHT
of the “Partners in
Progress’ parade at South Bend,
Ind., was the UAW Local 9 float,
and the youngsters emphasized the
point that the union is a vital factor in working for a better tomor-
mechanic and electronic technician
take 52 weeks, while others such
as nurse’s aide, auto service station attendant, solderer, wirer, and
w. On the float were (rear) Rosella
row. On the float were (rear)
Rosella Soos, daughter of Local 9
six weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. William
assembler, may require only about
president W. E. Soos and his wife;
and (front) Timmy Dixon, son of
local public employment
The
service determines the occupations
in which there is need for training
and screens and selects the candidates.
Patty Woody, daughter of Mr. and
ApproxiMrs. Lawrence Woody.
mately 115,000 persons viewed the
parade through downtown South
Bend.
3
Dixon, and
of
the
powerful
passed up a White
Senate
House
reception to meet with some 400 city and
county Democrats at the party’s annual Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner.
The federal tax cut that is coming, he de‘elared, ‘‘will benefit the working people of the
country. and would give the economy a new
lease on life.” A cut in taxes, he added, “will
put hundreds of thousands of people to work.”
The Senate Finance Committee now is considering President Kennedy’s tax cut proposals, and probably will come out soon with its
own version of the measure. Hartke commented, “I am more interested in a realistic and
fair tax foundation for the country, and this
will be the result, I predict, of this year’s session of Congress.”
The senior Indiana Senator, who voted in
favor of the test-ban treaty because of growing radiation dangers to health as a result of
nuclear fallout, also said state and local governments should supply money for education but
indicated his doubt that they could adequately
meet education’s increasing need for funds.
Officials of Indiana’s 105 school districts now
receiving federal funds, he said, have told him
they “are not controlled by Washington.”
*Truth-In-Lending’
Selected Features
Page
8—October,
Are
1963
Have you borrowed any mon-
ey from a gangster lately?
Joseph Valachi, the gangster who recently
was “singing” to a Senate committee about
Cosa Nostra, admitted modestly that he had a
“legitimate”’ sideline, too—he was a loan shark.
Valachi, who has talked freely about some
of the more lurid aspects of his past, told the
Senators that he achieved a reputation among
New York loan sharks as “the best shylock
He
charged
his
“customers” 20%, Valachi
said. His biggest profits
came from
“re-loans’”’ —
standard, 12-week debts
that were extended at an
additional and compounded
20%.
Valachi
called such transactions
“‘sweet loans, Senator 3g
gravy.”
The thought that can
a send
cold chills down
your spine is that Vala-
- chi’s activities in the loan
Douglas
business are outstripped
by “respectable” loan sharks who prey on honest men and women—many of them union
members.
These loan sharks are not
just operate the same way.
Entitled
to Know
What Interest You’re Paying?
Special to Solidarity
in town.”
You
gangsters;
they
If you are thinking of borrowing some money, better listen
have to disclose in writing (1) the total amount
of the credit charges in dollars and (2). the
dollar charge expressed as an annual percent-
age rate on
Most of us
average, an
every $100
stallment and mortgage debts.
The average consumer is oft-
pays for various types of cred-
President Kennedy
the Douglas bill.
charges
and interest rates he
it.
As Senator Douglas asks, how many ordinary borrowers know the following?
a
@ The small service charge of 14%
month on department store charge accounts
is often a true annual
interest rate of 18%.
@ The 3% a month plan of small loan companies is really 36% a year.
-@ The 44%% new car financing plan of
some commercial banks is really about 9%
a year.
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@ The advertised 5% rate on home improvement loans is not less than a 6% first
‘mortgage, as it seems, but nearly twice as
much or about 10% a year.
@
The
so-called 6% Ste
for financing used
cars offered by some dealers is at least 12%
a year and sometimes very much higher: 18%
to 25% -a year or more.
eee oon eR CORSA ON COPS TE REE CCR ON CE EROS ST ROTES
Senator Douglas is fighting.for his Truthin-Lending bill (S 750). He has held hearings
around the country, taking testimony about
interest rates ranging from 50% to 340%,
paid by victims of loan sharks.
Senator Douglas’ theme is -very simple:
“Every individual has the right to know
what he is paying for credit.”
His bill would not regulate costs, charges
or interest rates. All he is asking is that the
consumer be told the whole truth about credit,
so he knows what he is getting into when he
borrows.
3
Under the Senator’s bill, loan makers woul
as honest and ethical merchants have always
been helped in the past by other federal label-
misinformed about the credit
LSP
°,
OSE
shark.
loan
- “Honest and ethical merchants will be greatly helped by the ‘Truth-in-Lending’ bill, just
ing or
Douglas
.
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grasp of a gangster-like
or badly
en either unaware
to Sen. Paul Douglas (D., Il. )>
first. What he has to say may”
save you from the rapacious
the unpaid balance.
borrow money sometime. On the
American family pays $18 out of
of after-tax income to meet in-
@ The cost of teen-age credit now being
promoted by some retailers as only “pennies
per week” is sometimes as high as 80% a
year.
Senator Douglas says that his bill would allow the consumer to shop for credit and compare prices as he does now for a TV or a
washing machine.
: So They
Can
full-disclosure
says.
The following instructions covering Christmas mailings to the
Armed Forces overseas are announced by the U.S. Postoffice:
Greeting cards for Armed Forces
personnel overseas may be mailed
at any time, but if they are to have
reasonable, expectation of delivery
by Christmas, patrons should deposit such cards prepaid at the
first-class rate of 5 cents per
ounce, prior to Nov. 20, and after
that the air mail rate ‘of 8 cents
per ounce, prior to Dec. 10.
Parcels destined for delivery to
personnel of our Armed Forces
overseas should be mailed between
Nov. 1 and Nov. 20. If sent as air
be
should
parcels
post,
parcel
mailed between Dec. 1. and Dec. 10.
It is recommended that mailers do
their mailing as early within these
periods as possible.
Christmas time provides an excellent opportunity for everyone to
of
correspondents
their
advise
their correct mailing address complete with Zip code.
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supports
“Excessive and untimely use of credit arising out of ignorance of its true cost is harm-
ful both to the stability of the economy and_
to the welfare of the public,” the President
has
said.
What
are
the
chances
for
the
of
this
subcommittee
Truth-in-
Lending bill?
Right now, the Pate of the bill is in the hands
of the Production and Stabilization subcommittee of which Senator Douglas is chairman.
Members
and
the
full
Senate Committee on Banking and .Currency
Exare apparently almost evenly divided.
pressions of public support could tip the balance in favor of the bill.
Joseph Valachi, “the best shylock in town,”
undoubtedly would have opposed the Truthin-Lending bill. How do you feel about it?
Write to Senator Douglas and tell him.
. . ee
Miusie
Make
talented
year-olds,
musically
UAW’s
REPRESENTING
families are these two 18who
spent
the
summer
studying at the National Music
Camp, Interlochen, Mich., as winannual
ners of the union’s first
scholarships in music. They are
Cecelia Elizabeth Buchman, Bowling Green, O., whose father is a
member of the DeVilbiss unit of
Local
12, Toledo,
and
David
Gene
Tubergen, Holland, Mich., of a Local 284 family there. Cecelia is in
University
State
Green
Bowling
with plans to become a teacher of
instrumental music herself. David,
who would like to become a professional musician, is in Hope College
in Holland. They were among
1,477 young people from around
the country and abroad who stud- fed during the summer at the
famed
Mail Early
—(verseas!
legislation,” Senator
music
camp.
stelege
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Memorial’
‘Living
Roosevelt
Eleanor
to Mrs.
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for skilled women—
even
still lag behind
Wages
partly because of their political inactivity
By Gerda
A
AS
Range
on President
book—about women—is
NEW
Kennedy’s reading list.
It is the 86-page report of
the
Commission on the Status of Women.
President’s
The report, called ‘American Women,’ was
presented to the President Oct. 11 by Mrs. Esther Peterson, assistant secretary of labor and
executive vice chairman of the Commission.
The day the report was given to President
Kennedy was the birthday anniversary of Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt, first and only chairman of
the commission.
Seven Key Areas Explored
In carrying out its work from the time of its
formation by an executive order in December,
\
1961,
areas:
the
Education
commission
and
explored
counseling,
‘seven
key
and
com-
home
munity, women in employment,
ards, security of basic income,
the law and women as citizens.
labor standwomen under
The 24-member Commission—13 women and
11 men—was aided by more than 300 persons
drawn from various groups, including the labor
movement.
Mrs. Caroline Davis, director of the DAW
Women’s Department, served on the commission’s committee on private employment.
It was Mrs. Peterson, who has an extensive labor union background, who handed the
She discussed
study to President Kennedy.
it in an exclusive interview for UAW-Solidarity.
AMERICAN WOMEN, the report of the President’s
Commission on the Status of Women, may be purchased from the Superintendent of Documents, Wash-
ington,
D.
C., Zip
code
20402,
for
$1.25
a copy.
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ONE worker out of every three is a woman,
_ the report showed, and about three out of
we sat chatting in her attractive, high- |
ceilinged office in the Labor Department,
and
spoke with animation
Mrs. Peterson
thoughtfulness about women.
“« ,.. . I think the opportunities for American women are tremendous,” she said.
the
on
responsibility
a great
there’s
“I think
part
of
the
the American women to walk through
doors that are being opened for them.”
As the report points out, many doors of opportunity have opened for women since 1900.
But, Mrs. Peterson. admitted, many restrictions
and discriminations remain.
‘In lots of areas, we find limited opportunity
for top jobs,” she said. “We find very often
there
Ssiomsa
is
not
1. .
equal
access
to
many
profes-
.
“Large numbers in our society, as the report
says, are still working in the low wage occupations. I think that’s because we put a low economic value on women’s work and I hope we
rok rama
this. I think the report may help
a.
Discrimination
We pointed
Against Women Workers
out to Mrs. Peterson that
the
UAW has found specific examples of discriminSome employation against women workers.
ers, the UAW Women’s Department has found,
misuse state laws intended to protect women—
such as limitations on weight lifting—to block
promotions for women workers, dismiss them
or not hire them.
“Does
the
work
that
the
commission
‘done suggest a solution to this problem?”
asked Mrs.
Peterson.
has
we
“Yes,” she said. “In fact, it takes a very good
look at laws of this kind . . . There is a
feeling that these laws must be looked at on
the basis of an individual’s capacities . . . the
commission
felt very
laws like weight
and women.”
strongly
lifting should
that
protective
apply
to men
every five are married.
:
There are some 23 million women employed,
about 17 million of whom work full time. About
three million women workers belong to a union.
_ Despite the fact that women workers are an
important part of the nation’s work force, the
facts show they generally get paid less than
-men in the same skill or experience ratings.
In 1961, earnings of women working full time
averaged “only about 60% of those of men
working full time,” the report said.
‘Minority
Group’
Status
for Women
Although women outnumber men by some
four million, they receive ‘minority-group’ status in many areas, the report pointed out.
But, they cannot place all the blame on the
men.
Women,
themselves, must share some of
the responsibility for being treated like secondclass citizens.
As the commission report points out, the
failure of women to use their vote “converts
them into a minority.”
Available statistics show “women’s rates of
participation to be lower than men’s, alike in
the proportions of adults who register and in
the proportions of registrants who actually
cast votes,” the commission report states.
“Additional efforts are necessary to interest
and educate women on public issues, prepare
them for more constructive activity in-the na-
tional parties, and stimulate them to seek elective and appointive office.”
MARS. Peterson
mistic about
tial contributions
‘If they exert
remains enthusiastically optithe opportunities and potenof American women.
themselves and show responsi-
bility,” she said with firmness, “and they are
willing to be trained ...I would say that the
sky’s the limit for American women.”
The commission’s report was presented to
the President as a living memorial to one woman who made the sky her limit in serving humanity—Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. °
And so we asked Mrs. Peterson:
“Since the report marks the birthday of
- Eleanor
Roosevelt,
we
know
it’s intended
for
. What can we in the
a guide to action .
union movement, in the UAW and as individuals do to bring about these improvements?”
Many Things Can Be Done
This was Mrs. Peterson’s forthright answer:
“There are so Many things that you can do.
I would recommend that this report be studied
I would recommend that they
by the locals.
pick an area—suppose it’s maternity leaves,
suppose it’s minimum wage coverage, suppose
it’s counseling and guidance.
“Have these groups find out which are the
issues that mean a great deal to them, and
then associate with other groups in the community. If it’s legislation that’s required, then
that legislation can be drafted and endorsed
and lobbied through.
“These are practical methods that deal with
We will
our American system of democracy.
implement this report only if we have a broad
degree of citizen participation.
“The women must want to do this, and the
:
men must want to see it done.”
Page
10—UAW
Solidarity—October,
1963
Gerda
who has
columns
clusive
Peterson
member
Range (left) is a free lance writer in Washington
written articles for several magazines and special
for Solidarity. This article is based on an exinterview she did for Solidarity with Mrs. Esther
(right), Assistant Secretary of Labor. She is a
of the American Newspaper Guild, AFL-CiO.
Automation Wiping Out Foundry Workers’ Jobs
More
than 500 foundaries
Shut down in six years
e life-and-death
problems
facing
foundry workers were spotlighted
by the announcement of the closing
of yet another old-line foundry in
Cleveland—an
announcement
made
on the eve of the 18th annual Foundry Wage
and Hour Conference
in
will
This hardening of the arteries, and
then swift death, is the disease afflicting the entire foundry industry,
says Nelson Jack Edwards, UAW International Executive Board member
and director of the Foundry Dept.
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The
Disease
Is
Serious
And the disease, he adds, can be
traced directly or indirectly to the
technological
revolution,
which
is
swiftly changing this industry, one of
mankind’s
first and most enduring
industrial arts.
How
serious
is the
disease?
The statistics show the mortality
rate.
Just
six years
ago, in 1957,
there were 5,758 foundaries in the
United States. Now there are 5,219.
Some 539 foundries have shut up shop
—nearly one out of every ten.
And this drastic and rapid loss took
place despite the many new foundries
that made their appearance during|
that time—foundries with new and
automatic equipment, new methods,
new processes.
yy
pinpoint the statistics, take Cleveland itself, once a center of foundries. In the past 10 years some 4,500
UAW members lost their jobs when
13 old-line foundries closed down, re-
ports.
William
Humphreys,
director of the Foundry
assistant
Dept. Besides
National Casting, only one employed
900 or more workers. Half of them
employed
less than
200 each.
What’s the trend in the industry?
Where does it go from here?
The answer, given to the Foundry
Conference by UAW President Walter
P. Reuther, by Edwards and by the
delegates themselves, has a familiar
sound to all UAW
members:
More
production
with
fewer
workers.
Larger, more automatic plants—but,
in number, many fewer.
“The
small
foundry
which
pushed
of course.
“Many
out
of
the
industry,
foundry workers will require
retraining to operate the new equipment, as the production of castings
becomes
more
a science,” Edwards.
points out in a departmental report.
NEW OFFICERS of the UAW Foundry Wage and Hour
Council
are
sworn in by Nelson Jack Edwards,
International
Executive
Board
member and Foundry Dept. director,
after their election at the 18th an-
he more-production-fewer-workers
story is revealed, but not com-
that city late last month.
This time the dying plant was the
National Casting Co., the largest and
one of the oldest in Cleveland. Some
700 UAW members will lose their livelihood. Only
a few years ago, the
foundry employed twice that number.
be
pletely, in the
statistics.
In 1949, about 252,000 foundry workers in the U.S. were producing 13,793,182 tons of castings, or 54.73 tons per
worker.
As
most
Last year, the figures show, 221,000
were producing 15,053,253 tons of castings, or 68.11 tons per worker.
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do the figures reveal the entire the report points out.
“Along with new methods and automated machinery
have come thinwall, lightweight
castings
enabling
foundries to produce many more castings with the same tonnage of iron,”
says Edwards—so
that in terms of
numbers
of castings,
31,000
fewer
foundry workers
are producing
millions .of casting
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Council
Taft Hotel in New
in
al-
up
by
the
new
a shell molding
ma-
coremaking
much
can procoremakthe maof this
by 66%
91%.
machine,
with
can produce
as 17 skilled
with the opera-
with regard to the use of those resources and the meeting
of those
needs, and to develop and recommend
programs to meet those needs.”
The resolution
gates added:
adopted
“Such an Agency
by the dele-
could also act as
a clearing house for information as
to what is actually happening in our
economy ... we are today practically
flying blind into the age of automation ...no agency today has the responsibility or the resources to maintain a continuing study of the impact
of automation.”
less skill.
n his talk to the conference, Reuther
pointed to the central problem in
automation — how to harness this
technological
abundance
to provide
benefits for every segment of society.
AiO
National
Planning
A National
out,
pointed
Agency
Planning
be
would
Agency,
an
he
invaluable
tool in enabling us to find answers
the problem.
the
to
The UAW, both in its 1961 Special
Collective Bargaining
Convention in
Detroit, and in its 1962 Constitutional
Convention in Atlantic City, called for
establishment of a National Planning
Agency,
“the
essential
function
of
son Jack Edwards, director of the UAW Casting
an-
shell
Local 453, president; James Taylor,
Local 653, secretary-treasurer, and
Robert
Routson,
Local 975, vice
president.
.
process can be
chine with three operators
duce in 12 days. Five skilled
ers are also eliminated by
chine. Percentage-wise,
use
machine reduces manpower
and increases production by
tors requiring
York
Dept.
:
speeded
coremakers can—and
City Nov. 22 and 23, Nel-
Die Casting
nounced.
every production
industry,
two or three operators,
as Many cores in a day
The effects of automation on the die-casting
workers will be the principal subject of discussion at the annual conference of the UAW Die
Casting
automative
For example,
A
several
i AMO
the
tremendously
technology.
In other words, 31,000 fewer foundry
workers were producing nearly 2 million more tons of castings last year
than 13 years ago.
Nor
story,
in
nual Foundry Conference in Cleveland. From left are Willie Brooks,
which
:
should
needs
which
meet
them,
be
to
have
to
determine
be
met
in
the
our
society, and the resources we have to
to
establish
UAW President Walter P. Reuther
told delegates to the Foundry Conference that a National Planning
Agency is needed to find answers
to the problems of automation.
priorities
FOUNDRY Conference delegate presents his local’s view on an issue
under
discussion.
Be
cannot
or will not automate is as good as
dead,” says Edwards. “It’s just a matter of easing the pain and setting the
date of the funeral.”
The era of the highly trained journeyman, whose fashioning of an intricate mold and casting was a real
work
end.
Not
of art, is rapidly
all
displaced
coming
foundry
to an
‘otere!
fesseavete"ele
8 8eegeee®,
elecere 0 8,0 08
aretatyeeratete
workers
BES:
GEESete
The Skilled Trades Man Reports
7
Skilled Trades Department is
moving into high gear on
detail
work for the 10th Annual International Skilled Trades Conference to be
held in Chicago, January 23, 24 and
25, 1964.
More than 1500 UAW members and alternates are expected to
attend.
The Call to the Conference has been
Deadline for
sent to all Local Unions.
credentials is November 15, 1963. All
lost time and travel expenses for delegates must be borne by the local union they represent.
Moreover,
all
resolutions
for
this
Conference should be submitted to
the International Skilled Trades Department by December 15, 1963, as
spelled out in the Call.
The
Skilled
Trades.
Department
suggests that election of delegates be
held as soon as possible.
the Department receives
Our
As soon as
the request,
the credentials and hotel reservations
will be sent to
pating locals.
the
:
various
partici-
AST Conferences of Skilled Trades
workers show these facts:
The first Skilled Trades Conference
was convened in Chicago, Illinois on
March 3 and 4, 1951.
There were 190 delegates from Local Unions; 29 delegates from the old
Councils;
51 visitors and fraternal
delegates. Attendance total was 270.
Since that first historic Conference,
the wishes and hopes of the skilled
workers in our Industrial Union has
been steadily progressing.
But prob-.
lems still face us.
—
most
recent
Conference
was
presided over by UAW President Walter P. Reuther, with more than 1,000
delegates, fraternal delegates, visitors,
and staff participating. That was second only in attendance to International
Constitutional
Conventions.
Following is the participation in each
of the last nine Skilled Trades Con-
ferences:
1951 270; 1952 572; 1953 508; 1955
758; 1956 993; 1958 1112; 1959 849; 1960
1102; 1962 1017.
a
The average locals participating in
the Conferences was over 300.
We expect the 10th Annual International Skilled Trades Conference to
surpass all others in
participation.
attendance
and
UAW
OMETHING most skilled tradesmen
never thought would be introduced
in Machine Tooling techniques was
the foreman’s “old adage” that it sure
was too bad the
shaper
and
planer
could not cut on the backstroke.
But
it’s
being
done
England.
There a tool
shapers and planers has
in
Coventry,
holder
for
been devel-
oped to allow operators to cut both
ways—on the forward as well as the
reverse stroke.
This attachment
is claimed
to
fit
any American or European shaper or
planer.
,
Next, where will they
adapt
the
broom—on the front stroke or back
stroke?
Solidarity—October,
1963—Page
11
abe Busled. for
Local 952
aii
When
=>
the
Ford
Not
UAW
Motor
Co.
shut
down
its
hard-and-fast commitment to the members of
Local 952 whose jobs were being wiped out.
“The UAW will not forget about you,” said
Bannon to an overflow meeting at the Iron
‘Even though you
Mountain high school.
will not be paying dues to the union, we will
continue to work in your behalf.”
Recalling his commitment, the UAW Ford
Department director said this month, ‘We
Figures compiled by the.
have fulfilled it.”
Motor
Administration
Co.
Retirement
emphasize
his
Board
words.
stopped paying dues to UAW
Receiving
Benefits:
Normal (273 retirees)
Early (128 retirees) .
Level Income Early
(16 retirees)
Disability (33 retirees)
of
They show the falsity. of anti-labor comments that a union is “nothing more than a
dues collection agency.”
Even though Local 952 ‘“‘went out of business” and stopped collecting its members’ dues
when the Ford plant closed its doors almost
12 years ago, the one-time members of that
UAW local have since received a total of $2,benefits through the
651,067 in UAW-won
union’s contract with the giant auto corpora-
Total
Local 952.
$1,635,236.28
221,812.95
23,309.43
170,612.83
.....
$2,050,971.47
(450 retirees)
Deceased - Received Benefits:
530,514.82
Normal (135 retirees)
9,262.45
Early (8 retirees)
60,318.51
Disability (18 retirees) ....
Total
tion.
“This has happened because the UAW is
people, and because we believe in people and
in their dignity and security,” Bannon said.
“That money coming in to the UAW. members who stayed in Iron Mountain even though
is a
Ford
with
lost their jobs
they
major reason why the community did not
It was income that
become a ‘ghost town.’
people spent in the stores and businesses of
the city, so that even though many jobs disappeared, much purchasing power did not.”
Benefits
They stopped paying dues to UAW
Local 952 in 1951 when Ford’s decision
to close down its Iron Mountain, Mich.,
operations wiped out their jobs there.
But that didn’t stop UAW’s concern
with the welfare and the future of the
people whose jobs were affected by the
company decision, and the people who
were the wives and children depending
on those workers.
Here is a compilation of the money
these people have received in UWAW-won
benefits in the 12 years since they
once-booming plant at Iron Mountain,
Mich., in December, 1951, UAW National Ford
Department Director Ken Bannon made a
UAW-Ford
Their
$
(161 retirees)
600,095.51
Total Money Paid-To-Date
$2,651,067.25
(611 retirees)
Shortly
before
the
shutdown,
approximate-
ly 2,800 workers had jobs at the Iron
Mountain plant which turned out wood bodies
for Ford station wagons. The shutdown came
as a result of the shift to metal bodies for the
vehicles, the company said at the time.
Only between
able to land jobs
300 and 400 workers
at the Kingsford
Co., which took over the Ford property in
the upper Michigan city and operated it un-
— til it, too, shut down there just two years ago.
The
remaining workers either tried to find
other jobs in the area, took their early
retirement, or fended for themselves in
other way. Some 450 others, moreover,
advantage of the UAW agreement with
to get work at out-of-town plants of the
pany.
“When Ford shut down the plant, the
only recently had negotiated the first
sion program with the company. It was
some
took
Ford,
com-
UAW
penvery
limited, providing benefits of only $100 a
month including social security, and its eligibility rules were very strict.
“But as the union won an easing in those
eligibility
rules,
more
and
more
Iron
Mountain people became available for the
pension at Ford. If they.had
UAW-won
10 years of service when the plant had been
closed, they also had a vested right to the
UAW pension program at Ford. That means
that as more former Iron Mountain workers
reach retirement age, they become eligible for
a pension benefit,” Bannon added.
By last month, therefore, 450 of the former
Iron Mountain Ford workers had received
$2,050,971 in pension benefits over the 12year period since the plant was closed. Another 161 had received a total of $600,095
in benefits before their death.
Of the retirees alive today and drawing benefits under the union-negotiated program, most live in the Iron Mountain area,
said Kenneth W. Robinson, director of UAW
Region 1-D which includes the Upper Michigan
community,
were
Chemical
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of
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on.
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loca
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mer
for
the
of
one
and
: Representative Ivan Brown (left)
EOS
ROE
SEE
Over five hundred friends of Harry Southwell attended a dinner in his honor at Roma Hall in Livonia September 25th. He was presented with many
gifts and plaques by the Local, Region, International
and Councils, Shown above top left, Local 174 President Roland Garland presented Brother Southwell
with a beautiful plaque from the Local membership
plus a check from the party receipts. Top right, UAW
President Walter P, Reuther spoke in glowing terms
of Southwell’s contribution to the Labor movement.
2nd row, left, Ted Ogar, Editor, Michigan AFL-CIO
News,
did
right,
left,
part
a masterful
August
of the
large
Scholle,
as Toastmaster.
Job
crowd
in attendance,
President,
Michigan
2nd
3rd
row,
row,
AFL-CIO
uthwell with a plaque
Council presented Brother So
ard member of
bo
a
as
e
vic
ser
his
g
in
commemorat
the
Council.
B,
Swainson
as
Governor,
thanked
them
3rd
row,
right,
congratulates
for
their
Bottom
former
the
contribution
left,
Regional
hwell
Young presents Mrs. Sout
Harry
Region, They also gave
Governor
Southwells
to
his
John
and
election
Director
Bard
with a gift from the
trana fine AM-FM
sistor
radio,
Bottom
right,
Emil
Mazey,
Secretary-
olution of comres
a
d
rea
W
UA
the
of
rer
Treasu
Board, Brother
ive
cut
Exe
W
UA
the
m
fro
n
io
at
mend
Southwell
received
many
other
gifts
from
units
of
tee who planned
it
mm
Co
the
of
s
er
mb
Me
the Local,
Floyd Bolda, Chaire
wer
air
aff
the
ted
and conduc
John Hamner, Paul
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Alex
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Lew
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Staples, Joh
James,
Wilton
tka,
Gre
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e,
Col
Fred
ridge,
Charles
Stewart,
James
Robson
and
Blaine
Davis,
CONVEYOR
West
FIRESTONE
Side Local 174
West Side Local 174 Conveyor Edition is the official publication of
Amolgamsted West Side Local 174, UAW-AFL-CIO, 6495 West
Warren
Avenue,
ROLAND
CAL
Detroit
GARLAND,
FLETCHER,
JAMES
Financial
ZANDER,
ALBERT
Vice-President
Secretary
DAVIS,
Guide;
Editor,
TERRANA,
Secretary
BLAINE
LYONS,
8-5400.
PHIL
Recording
B. LOCKRIDGE,
GEORGE
TY.
President
THOMPSON,
MAX
10. Phone
MARTHA
BRADLEY,
ED KWASNIEWSKI,
AFL-CIO
Member
Press
Council.
Safe Thinking
OF SOLIDARITY
,
1963
FAX
Our Thanks To The Firestone Co.
For The Fine New Bowling Shirts
By
Trustees
Sergeant-cat-Arms
Labor
EDITION
October,
OREN
Now
that
HUBBARD
we
are,
once
Sorry:
to
again,
That
illness,
monial
in the beautiful, lovely season
of late autumn, I could dedicate
a few well chosen words about
the fall, about the season I
love, about the wonders of Mich-
I was
to
unable,
attend
Dinner
the
due
shop for almost 3 weeks, I have
no doubt missed a few things
Testi-
for Harry
that I might have wished to pass
around—I hope.
How
about those guys, Huff
South-
well, I have a great deal of respect for Mr. Southwell and the
job
he
has
done,
but
I
and Graham, with those trailers
up north, with the trout streams,
the ski slopes, the deer runs, the
just
couldn’t make it.
Also sorry to learn of the illness of Joe Woryn. Hurry back,
Joe.
igan, the wonders of living in it.
I could praise the fine crop of
new young workers we have now.
air,
north
the
trails,
color
the
quietness and the luxurious privacy? Man, they got it made,
See you at the Cider Mill.
When you stop to think about it, what is “safety?” Isn't Real nice kids.
Since I have been out of the
it just a commonsense way to do a job without exposing
I could tell you what a fine
yourself to needless dangers that can be eliminated or con- season our golfers have had (including Zanley’s shaving). And AMERICAN
trolled?
STANDARD
There’s an old story that illustrates safe thinking. It's the wonderful banquet they had.
I could
congratulate
the
about the Missouri farmer who always tramped over his
company for the new bowling
land and killed off the rattlesnakes before he began plowing.
shits for everyone. I could re
When his neighbors kidded him for wasting plowing
mind all and sundry to pretime, he drawled, “Mebbe so, but if I don’t kill the critters
pare for those high fuel bills,
tomorrow
me
kill
to
liable
they’re
looking,
today when I’m
and to check their radiators.
be
to
when I ain’t.” He had learned that job hazards had
I could tell Kirkman it’s time
controlled before he could work safely.
to fix those broken windows,
By FLOYD BOLDA
The next time, before you start working, think of the faulty heaters and poles and
Missouri farmer and look for the “rattlesnakes” on your job. holes in the parking lot.
There were
some
nostalgic
We
could
regale
you
with
the
Are the machine guards in place?
moments in the plant last week
wonders
of
ice-fishing
or
bowwhen we bid farewell to Cal
Is the electric hand tool grounded?
CONTROLS
Woody Ferguson is New Rep.
At Amer. Standard Controls
Is your work area free of tripping and slipping haz-
ards?
Do you see protruding nails in boards, kegs or boxes?
Are you wearing your safety goggles?
Should you wear gloves?
Shouldn’t you roll up your sleeves?
;
Do you have the right tools for the job?
It takes very little time to prepare your surrounding
and yourself to do a “safe” job. Hours of misery and suffering lie in wait for you if you plunge in without first looking
for the dangers and doing something to get rid of or control
them.
Celebrezze Hits Romney on ADC-U
DETROIT
of
Secy.
—
of
The
Health,
Education
and Welfare Anthony Celebrezze
in Detroit served as a reminder
of Goy. Romney’s stubborn refusal to support an aid-to-de-
pendent children of the unemployed (ADC-U) bill that would
meet federal standards.
Celebrezze, who was in Detroit
to
take
part
festivities,
in
blew
Columbus
the
whistle
Day
last
Spring on Romney's attempt to
push through a highly restric-
tive
ADC-U
exclude thousands of children
from receiving benefits. The
appearance
measure.
Romney program was so restrictive that only about onethird of the unemployed families
would
qualify.
The Romney bill would have
denied benefits to unemployed
workers not covered by the unemployment
compensation
law
and to agricultural workers. The
Republican governor rejected all
efforts by Democrats
ize the
federal
bill so that
standards.
Celebrezze
said
the
Romney
program
was
“too
restrictive
from a humanitarian point of
The
Romney
measure
did
not
meet
federal
standards
because of its provisions to
view.”
IMPORTANT
league
good luck—and
We
could
“Low”
Fletcher, who has been
e
WISH the bowling
all hit 600.
opinion
that they
give
our
of
Thank you for everything, Cal,
and success in your new office.
ANN HERTER retired after 32
years of faithful service.
Lucky
gal, no more incentive worries.
representative.
Conditions
and
facts
concerning
your
needs and interest in obtaining this service, it is VERY
IMPORTANT that you either bring in or mail your
answers to us at the Local Union Office.
There
were
TO
Rosy,
written
ROSIE:
old boy,
here,
you’re
to live in North
We
won't
words,
forget
that you
you.
time
pleasant
left
behind
Loraine
a lot,
you
enter
your
viroment.
new
never asked for a
load,
ever to be favored,
you'll
come
So, Rosy,
“So
for
word
that
too,
Just might
eye!
bring
and
mean
a tear
Don't
it
Mr.
Dwight
Legal
plant,
couple
of weeks
Eric.
ago. To you too,
We do not profess to be any
“I told you so,” but we welcome the news that the new
Schedule of Confusion is being scrapped.
This
is
to the
our
first
Conveyor
contribution
in a long time,
too long in fact. We are looking
forward
to being one
of the
“regulars”
in
the
future.
Chairman,
Community
Orientation and Discussion of the Community
L.
Brown,
Assistant
Director,
OCTOBER 21—7:30 - 9:30 P.M.
MORTGAGES—F.H.A.
Hamborsky,
Director
Detroit area.
Harry
Dingeman,
Jr., Common
Pleas
Court.
Anthony
Marchese,
Director
and
Chief
Counsel,
NOVEMBER 4—7:30 - 8:30
LEGAL AID
Aid
Bureau.
PEOPLE
P.M.
UNABLE
TO
Detroit
PAY
Mr. Mark Cavanaugh, Director, Medical Division, Wayne County Department of Social Welfare.
NOVEMBER 11—7:30 - 9:30 P.M.
HEALTH SERVICES IN OUR COMMUNITY
for prescrip-
answers
the
e
HAPPY DAYS to Cecile Dumoulin,
who
center-aisled
a
Marasco,
8:30—9:30 P.M.
HOSPITAL CARE FOR
| of
your
in
OCTOBER 28—7:30 - 9:30 P.M.
GARNISHMENTS AND REPLEVINS
—Amen
.. . we need your answers to the above
as you would like
Do you remember that old radio program, The Green Hornet?
Rumors have it that it is being
Federal Housing Administration,
Miss Evelyn Fraser, Director
United Community Services.
to us
“Sir, that merger you brilliantly
Aid.
executed with Consolidated, . .It
turns out ust
them}"*
we already own
ment
Community
Information
Service
NOVEMBER 18—7:30 - 9:30 P.M.
BUREAU OF SOCIAL AID—
OLD AGE ASSISTANCE—
}
—
of
to be treated.
Strange things
are happening overnight.
Our company’s loss was another company’s
gain when
Phil
Harrity left.
Services Program—Mr. Andrew W.
Community Services Dept. UAW.
to the
.
delay
at
Remarks—Mike
Services Committee
Jong,”
To
say
Opening
old boy, we'll just say
better than “Good-
ill
to some
SPONSORED BY THE
COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMITTEE
OF THE WAYNE COUNTY AFL-CIO
OCTOBER 14 THRU NOVEMBER 25
7:30 P.M. - 9:30 P.M.
COUNCIL HEADQUARTERS
2310 CASS AT MONTCALM, 5TH FLOOR
OCTOBER 14—7:30 - 9:30 P.M.
smile.
bye,”
is
loafing,
Union Counselling Class
in-
That's much
(5)
hint
low workers
for
hospital recovering from surgery.
Grace Kennedy (2) is suffering
with a painful arthritic condi-
lighter
back
Magyar
a wee
revived
home. George McKeever is in the
is fleeting and you'll soon
be one,
to start on your retirement,
want you to know we'll miss
you
cutting.
additional
some
Time
We
to re-enter the hospital
Mr.
so that we can offer this service to you as soon
as possible.
TODAY.
of
of happy
the supervisors—treat your fel-
valescing at home after serious
surgery and is now biding his
Carolina,
the
have
us
6. Would you be interested in joining a Pre-Paid Pre-
questions
tables
time was had by all at a won-
by
leaving
tions for your family in 1962? $
REMEMBER
two
future
for eur past
derful send-off
president.
Dale Skaags (5th floor) is con-
was
4. Do you live East or West of Woodward Avenue?
scription Plan?
the
Fuller Truitt, our thanks, Fuller.
which
Just
gets
well Testimonial Dinner. A fine
3. How many members in your immediate family?
you spend
at
it
American Standard
members
in attendance at the South-
Copyrighted Labor Features
did
that
years
Ann.
have
which we consider most appropriate
and
timely,
which
expresses the opinion of many of
2. Ase you single or married? ................
amount of money
hope
brighter
Judge
1. How old are you? ................
5. What
we
meetings.
mention them.
Instead, we will print a poem
rosy
information
plant
much
Someday
more
in the
have none of that, we won’t even
through,
again. But we won’t. We'll
and
Many
selection of
as our new
we are to see “Dick” Cox up and
us
e
few weeks. After several summit
So that we may know if you would be interested in this
awhile,
plan, please will out the questionnaire and either bring in or Be sure and stop at Firestone,
mail your answers to the Local Union Office.
Let us enjoy, once again, that
gather
years.
been seriously tense for the past
Below is a questionnaire regarding a possible Pre-paid Nor
Prescription Service for our members. For a yearly member- You’ve done a man’s job here
ship fee of $15.00 if you are married ($10.00 if single), a
and did it well,
member and his family would pay for the first $35.00 ($25.00 No
hardships
for
you
were
wavered.
if single) needed by them during the year. Any additional
Michigan is a wonderful place,
Prescriptions needed would be paid for by the service.
tion Service for you and your family, So that we may
fifteen
meetings with
management
a
faint ray of light
has broken
You
Your Local is looking into a Pre-paid Prescrip-
for
edge the welcome
Woody
Ferguson
Governor
attack.
A speedy recovery to all of them.
We would also like to acknowl-
very
ment of our senior citizens
(Maybe we'll get out and work
and yote next time!)
We could tell you how happy
about
along nicely after a mild
our rep-
resentative
Romney with his income tax,
fiscal reform and cruel treat-
When
NOTICE
(are you listening, Joe?)
WE COULD
to liberal-
it met
the
hunting
tion as is the case with Pearl
Wertanen.
Earl Detwiler (5) is
recovering from a serious ailment. Jack Marko (1) is coming
Mr.
—AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN
—AID TO BLIND AND DISABLED
Paul
Conlan,
Supervisor,
NOVEMBER
Mr. Fred
of Public
SERVICES
Supervisor, Intake
Welfare.
County
Bureau
of Social
25—7:30 - 9:30 P.M.
WELFARE
Schafer,
Wayne
Division, Detroit Depart-
4
October,
CONVEYOR
1963
EDITION
OF SOLIDARITY
Page
FISHER LIVONIA
3
tee
Members Urged to Attend
Classes Sponsored by Union
By
MARTHA
BRADLEY
There was a time when
in the labor movement had
courage
to
direction
lead
that
the
we
the
people
would
present time
tee and our
in
solve
our Shop CommitInternational Rep-
resentative
are
Management
a
their
every
of
which
to settle some
mostly
Paragraph
cases
standards
that
This reminds me of one of the
most
trying
resolved
problems. But it seems that most
of those leaders are disappearing from the scene.
meeting
we
are
S0meone
cases.
78
But
to
day
of our
always
else
with
do
un-
are
or high
it
seems
waiting
for
things
and
remarks I recently heard made 4ll too often we forget that we
by President Walter Reuther of each have a responsibility the
which he said, “We are still in a Same as our fell
social
jungle.”
much
work
to
There
be
is
done
stil]
and
committee
the
Tight
best way to do it it to pick up
e task of completing our unof
our
abundant
nology and relate
total people.
plaming
tech-
them
and
to the
should be done for the
all working people.
David Morris, who shot an 84; and Mike Newell, who shot a fine 74.
We
know
all need
what
we
good
of
and
to
education
are
entitled
to
and there are classes being conducted now at our Local, other
For Safer Driving
vantage
out today.
“But new problems have replaced
old ones on the high
speed roads,” he said.
“Before the era of the expressway, major booby traps for
drivers were
dangerous
intersections and head-on collisions.
“But engineers couldn’t eliminate people — and people are
persistent in finding ways to kill
themselves in autos.”
One easy way to have an ascident, said Porter, is to drive
too fast for conditions.
does
said
two
things:
1—It
gives
to think
gency.
an
Bob Sullivan of Ternstedt Division won the low medal cup in
the Local 174 Golf Tournament with a 73, one over par. Shown
above, Cal Fletcher, Financial Secretary of Local 174, presents
Bob with his trophy. Cal is a former plant chairman of TernsGeorge
tedt.
also
Committeeman,
Ternstedt
victory.
AVON
Education
Lyons,
Local,
the
of
Director
on
Bob
congratulates
a
too,
Blood
Bank
Drive
was
makes us the largest donor from
the Rochester Drive.
Our Annual Halloween Dance
is scheduled for November 2nd
if
the
past
fine
years
Churchill Road, Auburn
For
and
the
join
past
the
are
We
is
breaks
down
Heights.
fun.
month
there
has been grievance after grievance over poor working conditions
caused
by
just
plain
neglect. Everything from the
press that has been leaking oil
for over 2 months, to the terne
pot that smokes as if it has no
stack whatsoever,
The same
thing goes for every department in the place. We get the
same
story time after time,
no parts or not enough main-
tenance
help
to
get
to
it,
What puzzles everyone
is
where the company thinks they
are saying money by not repair-
they
would
com-
be sitting on a gold
mine with any sort of efficiency
or preventive maintenance program. Their motto seems to be,
“Never fix today what might last
until tomorrow.”
We lost our glamor gal, Wanda,
for.she
and be
decided to stay home
a full time wife and
mother.
luck
and
We
all
think
wish
she
her
smart decision.
The
guys
quite disappointed though,
cause
to
the
she
sure
scenery.
added
good
made
a
are
be-
sunshine
Another
cutie,
Vaida decided not to come back
the last time she was called back
from
shine,
layoff, She
occurs.
of
result from
“conflict
pointed
he
out.
Acci-
said—one
car
—
one of the
most
acci-
superhighway
the
rear-end
collision.
- reaction
chain
crashes occur because of following other cars too closely on
also hear the story, “We'll
fix it up temporarily until we
can work on it Saturday.” Those
temporary repairs are the only
ones made, usually, until what-
it
severity
trouble,
“Multiple
at all.
ever
emer-
Fast drivers can close the gap on
a slower vehicle ahead quicker
may
and
expect,
they
than
avoid
to
late
too
out
swing
ramming the slower car.
ing
equipment
and
machines
until they break down completely, to the point where they won't
run
the
time
drivers cause
said, “cause
dents
any pletely.
=
indication, everyone will have a
All I can say ts that if this
good time. It will be held at the company is doing as good as
American Legion Hall, 96 their last finoncial report stated,
So come
Porter
less
in an
if one
slow
common
very successful — 49 pints of the
82 who attemptad to give. This
igs a very good percentage which
and
increases
speed
traveling a lot slower than the
others, for example.
“Such differences
in speed,”
he
STICKLER
react
of movement,”
Avon Blood Bank Drive
Was a Grand Success
Our
and
dents often
TUBE
By JUANITA
a driver
accident
But
former
his
2—It
excessive
also added sun-
one
Leaying
roads.
high-speed
car length between you and the
car ahead for every 10 m.p.h. of
on sup-
is outmoded
your speed
erhighways.
mph.
40
at
that
Remember
your car will go at least 44 feet
between the time you see danger
and the time your foot hits the
brake. It takes an additional
feet to stop,
good.
at
“But
if your
brakes
m.p.h.,
it takes
70
105
are
yeu tine
If you do not have
.
and
3—Don't
the road,
4—Don’t
time.
in
your
take
believe
eyes
that
or
5—Form
Don't
change
fog
the
one-lane
straddle
only
one
lanes,
lane ata
th at
t
maybe
we
the
Local
174 Hall,
Warren Avenue.
that
members
meetings.
6495
West
It is important
attend
these
I know
it is hard
to
give up an afternoon with your
Joyeq ones or dol
somethin;
you love to do toecoe to :
forget,
us
they
to
have
inform
them.
to
depend
And
on
at
the
DETROIT
ployment
referee
has
—
A
Security
Michigan
Em-
Commission
ruled
that
strikers
are entitled to collect unemploy-
ment
compensation
the struck
substantial
if
company maintains
production during
the walkout.
The
benefits
ruling,
which
came
in
four claims filed by employes involved in last year’s lengthy dispute at the Socony-Mobil Oil
refineries,
fits be
paid
directed
the
that
bene-
claimant
strik-
ers from the point that the firm
claimed
newly
supervisory
hired
protection
production
W.
W.
ment
scabs
employes,
and
plant
personnel
returned
to norma! levels.
employMcMullen,
relations manager
at the
firm, had testified that “after
two and one-half weeks after
the
shut-down”
on
June
27,
1962 the entire establishment
of Socony-Mobil Oil Co. attained normal production.
MESC Referee Charles Rubthat the firm’s
inoff found
own testimony placed the end
of the stoppage of work at
July 21, 1962 even though the
time,
not
Doing
this
like
to
do.
your part to help mold
union
and
consequently
mold the world we live in can be
a source of great satisfaction.
a)
:
and
mass
cards.
Martha
A.
Peterson
strike
17,
did
not
1963.
Rubinoff
end
until
Jan.
the
Mobil
found
cases to fall under
the
1944
Michigan Supreme Court ruling
in Lawrence Baking Co. vs. Unemployment Compensation
Commission,
which
stated
in
part:
. . . we cannot establish a
rule that in all instances an employee on strike is unemployed
own
his
of
because
necessarily
fault ... the legislature intended to disqualify an employe for
benefits only when his unem-
ployment
or
page
resulted
substantial
a stop-
from
curtailment
of the work and operations of the
employer establishment because
of a labor dispute.
phrase
“The
refers
work’
to
the
of
operations
of
‘stoppage
and
work
the
es-
employer
tablishment and not the work of
the individual employee.”
striking
of
members
Four
Oiil,
7-456,
Local
and
Chemical
Atomic Workers, were inyolved
in the Rubinoff decisions, Receiving $697 in unemployment
between
benefits for the period
of
of the “stoppage
the end
settlement
strike
and
work”
were John Grier and I. J. Robertson. Carl Bullock and Earl S.
Zeese received lesser amounts
found
they
because
employment
were
for part of the time they
out of work at Mobil.
The four union members
of the
insky
Gottesman
&
firm
to
contested
were
Allen Koy-
Kasoff,
Kovinsky.
Rubinoff
The
not
Atty,
by
represented
off
and
do
Strikers Win Unemployment Comp.
From Scab-Operated Refinery
77
habit
we
our committee for everything as Termstedt and Fisher Body Li-~
some people are doing but don’t Yonla who sent flowers, money
because
less dense.
admit
read them and let’s fight man- Plant 14, wish to extend their
agement
instead of each
other. ‘hanks and
appreciation
We can, but should
not, blame to the many deepest
friends both from
Young,
were
decisions
the
Ap-
MESC
peal Board within the period allower for such appeals, The rul-
you're on a superhighway you're
immune to the hazards of bad
weather, There's no superhigh-|
way designed to make Ice less
slippery
I
a National Agreement ask your __ The family of Mrs. Tillie Kascommittee
person
to get you one,
one Pr2yk,
who was a retired emor
ask where
you can get
ployee of the Ternstedt Division,
455 more feet to stop!”
Porter cited five rules for superhighway driving:
1—Don't follow other cars too
close
2—Don't stop on the superhighway — speeding cars can’t
danger
Seatac: ase: yon
a Local or
feet just to hit the brakes —and
avoid
if you
Loca,
Region
1-A_ and at union meeting, but we have to
yne County AFL-CIO head- do many things in our life that
Superhighways have virtually
quarters.
eliminated many types of traffic
These classes are free. Check
hazards, Harry Porter, Jr., manfor furager
of
the
National
Safety your bulletin boards
Council’s
traffic
department, ther information and take ad-
Porter
and
Our regular membership meetclasses taught for us in the labor in g will
be held the third Sunthe a:
together
bring
movement
ay, October 20th at 2:30 pm.
know-how to do the things that at
Detroit Universal won the plant golf trophies for the four lowest scores from one plant in the Local 174 Golf Tournament. Shown above are L. to R. Cal Fletcher, Local Financial Secretary; John
Hamner, plant chairman, Detroit Universal Division; Bob Healy who shot an 83; Phil Terrana,
Local Vice-President; Wayne Bates, who shot an 83; Roland Garland, Président
of Local 174;
pointed
done
the future we will do all we can
to help and correct unpleasant
situations.
through
only
and
are
could have done more to help
our people and promise that in
This is what we should try to
help do, and only through education do we get a broad under-
standing
things
people to see that the
4re in doubt call your committee,
g9 while eyerybod:
is
s
finished work, to harness up the
fruits
ow worker or our
ings
blow
"It's no fun yelling at a
computer..."
are
to
being
firms
interpreted
which
try
as
maintain
operations
during
breakers,
supervisory
or
&
to
@
strike by the use of hired strikenon-striking
personnel.
other
TERNSTEDT
SOLIDARITY
OF
EDITION
CONVEYOR
October,
1963
FLASH
Passage of President's Tax Cut
Would Insure Another Good Year
By
ALEX
PENMAN
bor
Department.
The
official
figure, he said, is the most se-
We are now rolling along on
our Ternstedt
1964 production
program and the bugs in production
are
gradually
being
eliminated. This year there isn’t
that
had
as much
trouble
getting
going, but wait till next year
when
we
have
a _ complete
save labor costs there would be
no point in buying the equipment.
too much change so we have not
change.
The prospects for the immediate future, according to man-
agement,
course
use
are
they
have
very
good,
a tendency
Rose-Colored
Glasses
of
to
when
talking about future prospects.
They don't want to injure their
sales by giving out depressing
ductive myth about automation.
Another myth, he exploded, is
correct in its forecast of things
to come, We have had two fairly
good
years
employment
level
there
in
If
remains
have
pass
antee
at
a third.
Congress
Cut
row
throughout
the
is no
reason
shouldn’t
and
a
Bill
would
country,
why
we
get
busy
Tax
really
year.
if
a high
President’s
good
President's
enough, it
those
those
the
it
a
would
and
guar-
But
the
bill does not go far
gives more relief to
that don’t need it than to
who do. In other words,
the rich will get richer and
poor will get a few crumbs.
the
has
SEE THAT
finally
THE
gotten
President
behind
the
union’s drive for a shorter work
week.
Even
the Detroit Free
Press
editorial
to say
shorter
about
it, quote, “The
work week has gotten
October
7th,
on
had
Monday,
a
kind
word
cre-
If you want proof of this, take
a look
at the
automated
plastic
machines in Plant 18. There are
only a handful of people working
around
the
thousand
they
these
turn
out
Snyder
machines
finished
every
day.
admitted
and
parts
he
by
him.
If, with
the
would
put
of people to work who
need it. Unemployment
be cut drastically
and
country could or would
prosperity like we have
seen
before.
If you
other
tions.
large
really
would
this
enjoy
never
patriarch
computer
of
in
form,
data
use
by
processing
the
Census
Bureau since April, 1951, typed
out its last message Thursday
and obediently shut itself off.
Univac I had become obsolete.
Snyder told Congress the following
facts:
Automation
is
wiping
out
jobs
40,000 per week,
the
5,000
at
Snyder
estimated
REVERE
the
by
rate
of
the
me
line” was therefore
a column
did not appear last month.
We
are proud to say that
Revere is on the top again in
the
The
United
$10,000
Foundation
has
mark
Drive.
been
reached.
We have faith in our bargaining committee to see that the
new contract has the right pur-
pose in mind.
Two workers
Mill are in the
from our Strip
hospital. Victor
IN
OCTOBER,
1962
Unit
re-established a Red Cross Blood
Bank Charter in the interest of
The committhe membership.
tee consists of Chuck Baranski,
Methods Dept.; James E. Messinger, Pipe Shop; Walt Eason,
many
the
rather
over.
Chairman
is a long
call
Tech
why
in
Center.
they
before
than
the
Daniels
of
all
and
of
Steve
Department
Dept.
7;
8;
(Bobo)
John
partment
7;
Hydraulic
those on
Pierce. We hope that
the sick list have a
and
Mary
Charley
Day,
Bays,
Rickey,
retired,
Dept.
Dept.
Welder
7
and
Stella
wish
me
your
Doc
husband,
turned
to
you
till
to
Augustine
FEDERAL
SCREW
uncle
of John
was
a
polisher
at
By
NORMAN
J. MELOCHE
who will be unable
polls
Thomas
ed
in
today.
person.
to attend
City
D. Leadbetter
Detroit
voters
who
Hi Folks, well our long awaited,
wished
for,
hoped
for,
and
prayed
for
nally
Indian
arrived.
often
heard
most
me
As
Summer
you
say,
beautiful
breed
and
have
no
urge
of the motto
of you
are
aware
ballot
be
is-to
signature
address
of
to
mailed;
each
which
and
a
beautiful
AMOEAnd
peninsula
add,
club
several
went
seasons
and
2,
we haven’t been able to put
our finger on it.
Bro, Carl Preiskorn of machine
repair
a
row
marvelous
WELL
has
FOLKS,
brought
in
THE
more
recently
time
but states
that
know that anyone noticed the
weather when they were on a
honeymoon.
topper
A tip of the
“well
and
done fellow” to one Ray Hanson
of tool room, seems he is a member of the “Eagles” drill team
that took top honors in state
seemed
to be going against you. This is
the kind of spirit that not only
wins ball games, it also wins
trophys.
e
off
it rained five days. Gosh I didn’t
many individual stars and starring plays, in the end it was a
all the breaks
a week
Soo, sort of a second honeymoon. Carl reports they had a
they
Tose to the occasion this year
and captured the pennant in the
playoffs.
Although
there were
and
took
and he and his beloved wife took
a trip up through the Canadian
it.
up as bridesmaids
in
bachelors,
eligible
of
of the
Strange thing, as of his wedding, Jerry switched from the
afternoon
the
to
midnight
shift, No doubt there is a moral
involved here someplace but
look
done
a member
you in about a year for a cigar.
Amen.
finally
Jerry
to
extended
hereby
having taken the fatal step
recently..Good luck boy, see
about you. To which we can only
recently. We don’t
Ray’s wing spread
competition
know about
but he is easily the tallest eagle
we have ever met.
Remember,
That’s
it folks.
keep busy.
past week
evidence
Time Study Course
Work Standards—Fair Day's Work
UAW
The
Engineering
Department
will conduct
a
Training Program for
Committeemen
Stewards and Officers
—
LOCAL
the
the
Begins:
1963.
and
This
Region
.
MONDAY,
will run
at —
900 HALL
Van Born Road — Inkster
near Middlebelt Rd.
29841
registered
voter desiring such absentee ballot.
The deadline for the acceptance of applications
for such
ballot is 2:00 PM., Saturday,
November
ranks
rather than have you all scrambling about in search for a Latin
dictionary,
Ill
tell you
that
translated it reads, “If you would
see
helpmate
presented
an eight pound boy.
is no longer
that our wise fore-
QUAERIS PENINSULAM
NAM
CIRCUMSPICE”.
whose
Marentette of boltmakers, but
for a slightly different reason.
Seems as though friend Jerry
fathers picked out for this beautiful state of ours.
It is “SI-
or
are registered and
a bona fide
resid-
the
and
Just as a side thought, I wonmany
boltmakers
by the by, many thanks for the
fine cigars.
Congratulations are also due,
fying peace
of mind that you
could not possibly come by in
any other way.
der how
of
charming
him with
mother
nature at her finest.
This will give you a soul satis-
the
which they
maintaining
ence;
wife presented him with a six
pound baby girl, and Jimmy Hil-
the
Congratulations to the both of
you and the best of luck. And,
announc- |
ill
two
for the great out of doors, take
my advice, just take a long drive
out in the country and observe
Walton
must state the reason for elector’s inability to go to the polls
in person;
the address from
Let’s all be at the meeting this
of
Our
liard
down
who will be out of the City on
November 5, may procure a ballot by directing a letter or postal |
card to the City Clerk, 202 CityCounty Building, Deroit, Michigan
48226.
Request
for ballot
a
so
is the
season
explosion.
most recent entries in the vital
statistics column were Fred Barton of tool room whose lovely
fi-
have
this
population
year in Michigan. To those of
you who are not of the Isaac
Clerk |
are
of the
that F.S.W. is still keeping pace
with and contributing to the
group effort and a group victory.
Congratulations
fellows,
you
turned in a good job and you did
not give up when the chips were
| tive to the School Millage Proposition
are
now
available
for
distribution to Detroit Electors
championship
Federal Screw Ball Team
Wins Playoff Championship
After winding
Vincent,
of her
playoff
WORKS
husband
on the passing
Absent voters ballots for the
Special Election of November 5,
1963 called by the School District of the City of Detroit rela-
at
the
Well folks, our bully boys on
the ye olde Screwe Workes ball
Absentee Ballots
Now Available
Kramer,
of the committee.
Stella
Federal Screw Ball Team won
Local 174 Softball League.
and Dominic Falesiewicz on the
loss of their father, to Mary
pension and
Ternstedt.
wishes
contact
Kwiat-
Hoffman on the passing of her
husband, Ernie Hoffman, Ernie
was retired on a total disability
demands
when
so few people
donate.
To
locate the
nearest
Red
Center
Stella
Mendrygal,
Plant
18 Committeeman. Sympathies also to Mrs.
UF.
down
to
Mendrygal
give, you get” is our
To date we have only
pints of blood in our
Individuals
to
kowski on the sudden loss of her
We
attention
to them.
Sympathies
account and the only ones eligible to receive these are those
who gave. We have tried to
reach the membership through
pamphlets
and
posters,
but
without
much
success.
Seyeral requests for blood had to
be turned down as they were
from non-participating members.
month.
law.
number: Lola Votenz, 5651 Romeyn, Detroit, Michigan 48209.
Phone No. TA. 5-5734.
didn’t
waiting
Staniszewski
Shape Dept.; and
Carpenter Shop.
member
in the
like phone calls, cards or visits.
Let’s see what you can do folks.
Here is the address and phone
two classes now going on which
are really designed to help committeemen and also anyone in-
Cross
This is
Romney
Lola Votenz, who Is retired, is
quite sick and lonely and would
year
Nancy
“You
motto.
a few
changes
Whilan,
Clara
new
Fantana, an Inspector and Westhe Red Cross Blood Centers will
We | be given consideration and only
ley Nixon, Crane Operator.
wish a speedy recovery to both. sympathy at the present as we
a
could nowhere near meet all the
this
made
subjects.
class as
following
retired
last
Mary Meyers, Wingfield
wonder
to
Committee.
Speedy recovery and
to those
who just returned, its nice to
see you back.
Revere Goes Over the Top
In United Fou ndation Drive
Did not know when the “Dead-
Education
time
at
it was
being
It will run for 6 weeks, time is
7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and will
5,
Gillespie, Mary Tiano, Josephine
Drive
is
Fitzpatrick, Main and Stan Murphy,
Alternate
Committeemen
of Plant 5. The following have
just returned: Tom Gross, De-
COPPER
By JIM ZEBLEY
the Local
nesses
bring
It
The second is being held at
Region 1-A, 8222 Joy Road and
is sponsored by the Region and
after one passes sixty.
do
p.m.
to thank their many friends in
the plant for their many kind-
one
The
month:
worker's
held at 2310 Cass Avenue. This
is a very educational course and
we hope our committeemen take
advantage of it.
Bozan
terested in becoming one. The
La-' first is in Union Counselling and
said, not
9:30
Kwiatkowski,
I, the) is now
Univac
to
Anne
Dubas, Emil Kuschel, Margaret
powerful support from two di-}| Houston, John Farish and Francis Dennis.
We wish them all
vergent human sources and one
the best of luck, good health
machine.”
The two humans were Presi- and happiness in their retiredent
Kennedy,
who
lent
his ment.
e
“personal” endorsement to a 35
IT WAS NICE TO HAVE a
hour work week and John Snyder, Jr.. a manufacturer of au- visit from Miss Torchy, Nancy
tomation equipment. Snyder all Dykstra and her parents in the
but told Congress that a short- Ternstedt Cafeteria on Monday,
October 7th. Her dad formerly
er work week was inevitable.
The machine’s support came
worked at Ternstedt Detroit and
in different
p.m.
contract.
Frankly,
we
don’t
know whether this is a wise de-
cision,
a
everyday
life.
It started
on
Monday, October 14th and will
run for 8 weeks, time is 7:30
George
this
our
of
covers
whom I have been notified: Sadie
Reser,
Pete
Simon
and
corpora-
and
and
We have quite a few members
on sick leave, here are those of
Speaking of retirement, our
retirements in Ternstedt have
slowed down, seems that many
of our members
are
putting
their retirement off until after
September
aspects
unemployment
is a pipe dream, just take a
look at the Financial Reports
of G.M., Ford, Chrysler and
many
many
has
a lot
think
Committee
more
timely
also a timely
endorsement
of President Kennedy, we can
get a 35-hour work week next
year at 40 hours pay, coupled
with Early Retirement after
30 years, we
tion
County
Educa-
cover such subjects as: Unemployment Compensation, Workmens’
Compensation
and four
didn’t
have all the answers but we
think the UAW
could
help
next
WE
equipment
ates jobs for workers who must
run and service them. This is
foolish. If automation did not
information.
But
employment
is
at
its
highest
level,
approximately
3,400 since Engineering moved
to the Tech Center. This is good
and we hope
management
is
automated
is sponsored by Wayne
AFL-CIO and the Local
for six
OCT. 28, 1963
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